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Originally Posted by RNajarian
CP, Before you completely disregard the achievements and contributions of SpaceX ask one question . . .
When NASA determined that the risks were too great to return Williams and Wilmore from the ISS on the Boeing Starliner what vehicle did they choose to essentially rescue the stranded astronauts?
A SpaceX Dragon spacecraft was chosen.
Musk is a manager, visionary, and maybe even a dreamer. However, to label him a genius is a stretch, regardless it would be disingenuous to dismiss his scientific contributions he has fueled the past two decades.
Yes NASA funded SpaceXs and Boeings development of their spacecraft. Boeing got more than twice the funding SpaceX got and has yet to deliver a human rated space craft (Starliner.)
Please don’t mistake me for a Musk “Fan Boy.”
Plenty of his projects do not impress me. A fair minded person would give him credit for SpaceXs achievements.
It is insincere to dismiss his accomplishments considering he can deliver 4 astronauts to the ISS for 56 million each where Roscosmos charges 65 million per astronaut and Starliner (Boeing) charges 90 million per astronaut.
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we are talking about starship here.
falcon 9/heavy for example, is IMO a far more significant achievement than starship, on account of it actually working. reliably, and cheaply.
but the starship mission profile is bananas. and its years from achieving it, too late, over budget, etc. something can be "cool" and also a colossal waist of money, time, and energy. its up to good management to decide which, and guess what elon's one job is to do?
notice though that falcon also had the least amount of elon meddling? kinda like how the only good tesla is the one he had the least amount of meddling in? the model 3/X/Y that all ride on the same platform. the S is garbage, and so is cybertruck ... which two did elon have the most meddling? the S and cyber truck.
so elon is bad at picking winning projects. hes bad at technical/program management. and he's a bad engineer. so what is he good at? all his pressers are lies (see also the new one about the tesla robots being faked ...), like he isnt even a good salesman of his ideas.